Election results

Text of measure

The language that appeared on the ballot:

"Shall section 13 of article VII of the constitution be amended to empower the legislature, by vote of two·thirds of the members elected to each house, to remove county and municipal judges for cause in accordance with procedures established by law?"[1]

Constitutional changes

(Article VII) Section 13. Any judge of the supreme or, circuit, county or municipal court may be removed from office by address of both houses of the legislature, if two·thirds of all the members elected to each house concur therein, but no removal shall be made by virtue of this section unless the judge complained of shall have been served with a copy of the charges against him, as the ground of address, and shall have had an opportunity of being heard in his defense. On the question of removal, the ayes and noes shall be entered on the journals.[1]